Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seventh edition , in 1759 ‘ revised and altered according to the latest system of Botany ’ , included many new plants from overseas and , as Miller emphasised in the Preface , their descriptions had not been copied from books , but taken from nature : ‘ the far greater number are from growing plants which the author has under his care , and the others are from dried samples which are well preserved ; of which he has , perhaps , as large a collection as can be found in the possession of any private person . ’ |
| 2 | A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose . |
| 3 | Attainment target 3 : A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose . |
| 4 | A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose . |
| 5 | • writing — with three attainment targets in the primary stages : a growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language , matching style to audience and purpose ; spelling ; and handwriting ; but two in the secondary stages , with spelling and handwriting merged into an attainment target called presentation . |
| 6 | writing — with three attainment targets in the primary stages : a growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language , matching style to audience and purpose ; spelling ; and handwriting ; but two in the secondary stages , with spelling and handwriting merged into an attainment target called presentation . |
| 7 | There should be no doubt that , for all foreseeable business purposes , candidates can perceive and convey meaning in its written English forms , both quickly and accurately . |
| 8 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 9 | Stirling was accompanied by Seekings and Cooper as usual , and planned to drive to his target in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 10 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 11 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 12 | They ‘ had a motor car placed at their disposal … and planned to arrive at Dennis ' home [ at Ancaster , near Sleaford ] at 9.30 , so as to have a glass that cheers , and then talk until midnight , the earliest time for signing . |
| 13 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 14 | He took down the painting and planned to leave with it , but then he heard Sabine and a man shouting in the lounge . |
| 15 | At LULLINGSTONE , a ferro-concrete station was built and planned to open in April 1939 . |
| 16 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |
| 17 | Adopting a hierarchical standpoint and preferring to speak in terms of ‘ life ’ rather than ‘ motion ’ , Plotinus regarded time as an intermediate between eternity ( or the higher soul that contemplates eternity ) and the motion of the universe which reveals time as the ‘ life ’ ( or creative power ) of ‘ soul ’ . |
| 18 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 19 | Substances may accumulate and disappear according to the functions which they serve and the stages in the plant 's life cycle . |
| 20 | Donald Mackay , aged 41 , was jailed for life at the Old Bailey — and recommended to serve at least 40 years — for the murder of a prostitute , Ann Petherick , and for assaulting another prostitute , Rosemary Saunders . |
| 21 | Relax and repeat exercise at least five times . |
| 22 | Second , once divested of their zonae , embryos of all stages are very sticky and tend to adhere to one another as well as to most culture dishes . |
| 23 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 24 | Store detectives work about seven hours a day , including breaks , and tend to earn from £8,000-£10,000 per year To avoid getting too well known , they have a patch of around 10 shops which they patrol on a rota basis . |
| 25 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 26 | They welcome the new day and tend to feel at their best at about noon or earlier . |
| 27 | They have less opportunity to make new friendships and tend to depend for companionship on the continuity of longstanding relationships . |
| 28 | ‘ The bulls going to Perth are selected for the suckler men and tend to fit into a tight price band . |
| 29 | Co-stars Christopher Cazenove and Robin Nedwell lack musical training and tend to struggle through their numbers . |
| 30 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |